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Hardback. Careers in astronomy for women were a rarity in Britain and Ireland until well into the twentieth century. This book investigates the place of women in astronomy before that era, recounted in the form of biographies of women born between 1650 and 1900. Num Pages: 277 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JD; 3JF; 3JH; JFSJ1; PDX; PG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 638.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Number of pages
277
Condition
New
SKU
V9789048124725
ISBN
9789048124725
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 129.20

Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBL; HPC; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349518937
ISBN
9781349518937
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. Num Pages: 264 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HP; HRC; JFSJ; MMJ; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 343.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349425785
ISBN
9781349425785
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. This edited volume includes contributions from internationally renowned experts in the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein. It applies his later philosophy to concrete issues pertaining to the integrity of scientific claims in a broad spectrum of research domains within contemporary psychology. Editor(s): Racine, Timothy P.; Slaney, Kathleen L. Num Pages: 332 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPM; JM; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 448.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
332
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349350315
ISBN
9781349350315
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 127.49

Paperback / so. Editor(s): Neuenschwander, Erwin. Num Pages: colour illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: PBX; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 640.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
United Kingdom
Condition
New
SKU
V9783034893961
ISBN
9783034893961
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 74.09

Paperback / so. Num Pages: black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: PDA; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 20. Weight in Grams: 381.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1914
Publisher
Vieweg+Teubner Verlag United Kingdom
Edition
3
Condition
New
SKU
V9783663151838
ISBN
9783663151838
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 72.29

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Springer
Edition
2014th Edition
Number of pages
120
Condition
New
SKU
V9789400768741
ISBN
9789400768741
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 76.79

Paperback / so. Num Pages: black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: HB; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 608.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1890
Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
Condition
New
SKU
V9783642983177
ISBN
9783642983177
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 79.40

Hardback. Editor(s): Scholz, Fritz; Jack, Robert Smail. Series: Springer Biographies. Num Pages: 688 pages, 15 black & white illustrations, 1 colour illustrations, 4 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JH; 3JJ; BGTA; PDA; PDX; PNR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 38. Weight in Grams: 1214.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
Number of pages
688
Condition
New
SKU
V9783319469539
ISBN
9783319469539
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 231.83

Hardback. Leitch regards Wikipedia as an ideal instrument for probing the central assumptions behind liberal education, making it more than merely, as one of its severest critics has charged, "the encyclopedia game, played online." Series: Tech.edu: A Hopkins Series on Education and Technology. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: JFC; JNM; JNP; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 230 x 16. Weight in Grams: 378.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421415352
ISBN
9781421415352
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.77

Hardcover. In late seventeenth-century London, the most provocative images were produced not by artists, but by scientists. This book reveals that these natural philosophers shaped Restoration London's emergent artistic cultures by forging collaborations with court painters, penning art theory, and designing triumphs of baroque architecture. Num Pages: 304 pages, 10 colour plates, 66 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3JD; ACQ; PDX. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 261 x 189 x 25. Weight in Grams: 840.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226017297
ISBN
9780226017297
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 60.60
€ 51.90

Paperback. Editor(s): Falkenburg, Brigitte; Morrison, Margaret. Series: The Frontiers Collection. Num Pages: 290 pages, 21 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: PDA; PDX; PHF; PHS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 450.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2015
Number of pages
290
Condition
New
SKU
V9783662523094
ISBN
9783662523094
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 116.40

Paperback. Examines 100 extraordinary projects, theories and experiments that have been conducted in the name of science. From spider monkeys to human cyborgs, and from swimming in syrup to chaos theory, the author places each experiment and discovery in its scientific context. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 152 x 206 x 21. Weight in Grams: 482.
Publisher
Thames & Hudson Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
9780500292006
ISBN
9780500292006
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 5.80

Paperback. Examines the phenomenological and cultural roots of Goethe's approach to science, and argues that Goethe's insights represent the foundation for a future science of nature. Num Pages: 432 pages, Illustrations, port. BIC Classification: PDA; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 24. Weight in Grams: 688.
Publisher
Floris Books
Number of pages
432
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780863152382
ISBN
9780863152382
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.36

Hardback. Tells two intertwined stories: how, in early twentieth-century Iran, an emerging middle class used scientific knowledge as its cultural and economic capital, and how, along with the state, it employed biomedical sciences to tackle presumably modern problems like the stress of everyday life, people's defective willpower and demographic stagnation. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1FB; 1FBN; HBJF1; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 31. Weight in Grams: 626.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520254473
ISBN
9780520254473
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 84.36
€ 65.36

Hardback. Num Pages: 336 pages, 2. BIC Classification: 3JD; 3JF; PDX; RBG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 28. Weight in Grams: 599.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801433863
ISBN
9780801433863
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 103.82

Paperback. Offers an introduction to the world of women and men who did the hard computational labor of science. This book tells us about the surveyors of the French Revolution, describes the calculating machines of Charles Babbage, and guides readers through the Great Depression to marvel at the giant computing room of the Works Progress Administration. Num Pages: 424 pages, 50 halftones. BIC Classification: PDR; PDX; TBX; UYZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 160 x 23. Weight in Grams: 622.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
424
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691133829
ISBN
9780691133829
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 39.95

Paperback. Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science. Num Pages: 296 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HB; PDA; PDX; PHD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 462.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2002
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9789048159253
ISBN
9789048159253
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 194.20

paperback. Nobel laureate Erwin Schrodinger's What is Life? is one of the great science classics of the twentieth century. Series: Canto Classics. Num Pages: 192 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: PDA; PDX; PH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 138 x 10. Weight in Grams: 284.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781107604667
ISBN
9781107604667
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 22.26

Paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages, 7 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 485.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9781501704390
ISBN
9781501704390
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 33.25

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